Flipping the proposal back on him, one user wrote: "I wonder what this dude would've done if he was in the middle of a huge work presentation that he was working on for months and then, midway through, she interrupts with a proposal."

SHE SAID YES: A woman who was running in Sunday’s New York City Marathon was at mile 16 when her longtime boyfriend hopped over the barrier and dropped to one knee. She ended the day with a medal around her neck and a ring on her finger. https://t.co/8xbZ6P24RMpic.twitter.com/YizdEJYOhc

What's more, one woman who was actually proposed to after a marathon then weighed in on the matter.

SHE SAID YES: A woman who was running in Sunday’s New York City Marathon was at mile 16 when her longtime boyfriend hopped over the barrier and dropped to one knee. She ended the day with a medal around her neck and a ring on her finger. https://t.co/8xbZ6P24RMpic.twitter.com/YizdEJYOhc

Insisting that people "stop raining on their happy moment", one user said: "We don't know the dynamics of their relationship. There was a reason there were so many family and friends there."

One user joked: "If he really loved her, he would've waited until after the race, given her a massage, taken her to a nice dinner, left her alone all night so she could have a nice long rest, woke her up the next morning with homemade waffles and strawberries THEN asked her to marry him."

Another told critics that "maybe her fiance gave her a dream proposal".

The outraged user wrote: "The amount of negativity on this is astounding. As someone who has actually run a marathon, I would have been v happy to get engaged at mile 16. IT would have helped!"

Shedding light on the questionable choice of timing, Ms Curran's cousin Rachel Bossabaly revealed that Mr Galvin was not allowed to wait at the finish line to pop the question.

She wrote: "I can't tell you all how happy and grateful she was and still is about how everything turned out.

"This is a happy memory that they will both have for the rest of their lives."